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iervefl, that by an old Scottish Act of Parliament, any person placing a small sum in the Bank of Scotland became a naturalized subject. The Union naturalized all subjects of Scotland, there f4.)re, as the law now stood, to evade the Alien Act, it was only necessary for a foreigner to place a smill sum in the Batik of Scotland. He should therefore, in the course of the progress of the Bill, propose a clause to provide against that Act The Earl Fri Z WILLIAM shortly expressed his disapprobation of the measure. Now there was a general peace, his anxious wish was that the coontty should return to the enjoyment of its ancient customs, usages, and laws. The Duke of Sossax observed, that in a fall conscientious discharge of his public duty, he could not concur in the proposed measure. Ile especially•disapproved of it on the ground of the great liability of the pOwer being abused. This was particularly instanced in a case said to he in sante measure connected. with the humble indivi dual who now addressed their Lordships ; but it was an insinuation which he must pointedly re pel. A certain Officer once of some rank in the British service, was charged with and tried for a conspiracy in I'ortugual, and of whiCh, according to trials and convictions in that country, he was convicted, and in,consequence struck off from our Army List. That person afterwards landed in a British purt, hut be was sent away under the Alien Act. With that person he was said to have been connected, but so far from it, he had even no knowledge whatever of the transaction. .A few years since, when in the service of a great person in this. country, he was acquainted with the Officer to whom he alluded ; but he could declare upon his honour, that for the last nix or seven years :bad no acquaintance or inter course with him whatever. 'The powers proposed to be vested in the Executive by the Bill should, he thought, be regarded with much constitutional jealousy ; and on that great principle, joined to its great liability to abuse, he felt it his duty to oppose the Bill. .tord tioLLAND declared himself decidedly hostile to this Measure, and the arguments of the Noble Viscount had not at all tended to sub due his hostility. The Noble Viscount had asked, Was it not proper that at a time when every power on the Continent possessed the prerogative of sending the seditious, the turbulent,..iend the un • worthy out of their States, that this Government should ba - ve ',the power of preventing their com ing here ?• If the G'overnmtnt bad not this power, this country might be made the asylum of all the factious and disaffected ; but did not the Noble Lord also recollect that this measure, if adopted, would subject to its operation the un fortunate, who were the victims of injustice and tyranny on the part of their own Govern , ment ; and that lie would by .this measure close the door of hospitality against the stranger auil the destitute ? The Noble Lord contended, that the unavoidable result of this measure would be abuse ; and he alluded to former cases of persons sett out of the kingdom, under the Alien Act. The case of Las Cases was one strong in point. M. Las Casas was sent from St. Helena, and the very day alter his. arrival in this catio n), was sent out, under the Alien Bill, and his papers seized and detained, a proceed lug which, he contended, even the Alien Bill did not authorize. Government had perhaps seen their . . mistake, and had, he understood, restored that f c . Stetlltil pi: I 3011 ors papers, but ry they had -detained them long enough to hay, proved the rtrio of any individual. The Noble Viscount contended, that the Crown had already the prerogative and power given to it in the Bill. He (Lord H.) doubted much this fact, but even • if it was so, the Government had always formerly been most reluctant to enforce that prerogative. It :tad, on the contrary, always been the policy • of this country to encourage the resort of foreign ers to our shores, and such ought always to -be our policy. The Noble Viscount had said, the • measure was necessary to secure the tranquillity of the Continent. He denied any soch necessity • 'and the Noble - Lords opposite, in advancing this argument, had reduced themselves to the neces sity of acknowledging, that after all our extraor dinary exertions, and expenditure of blood and treasure, and after the glorious peace, of which they had boasted so much, that they had still left the Continent in a worse state than they found it a state which rendered necessary a measure never before called for in a time of peace. The Noble Lord contended, that in a constitutional point of view the measure was highly objection able, and pregnant with danger to the freedom. and privileges of the people of this country. — The Noble Lord then alluded to the case of Don Diego Gomez, the person alluded to by the Duke of Sussex. Don Diegoi was accused of having, when in Spain, written against the English interests there. This was the crime imputed to hint, and for which, he had been made subject to the operation of the Alien Act, and under which lie was brought from Por tor.sai to this country, and from hence to Spain, where lie was made subject to the Spanish Laws. It had always been the policy of this country, in all her contests, to contend against universal monaechy. Now universal monarchy was not a mere name without an evil; it was a• system of evil arising out of Europe being subject to one will; now this might be effected, though there were five or six Sovereigns, if there was one sys tem and one will amongst them. If Russia was to permit one indivi(fal, Prussia another, France another, England another, and each Power was to consider itself bound to give the proscribed person up, where was individual liberty gone to, and- where could the oppressed find refuge ? No where;, Jan! such would be the effect of the propos ed measure, if adopted. The Alien in this country, it he observed the laws whilst here, ought to he protected; the adoption of this measure would be an invasion of those laws on which our great ness were founded, and one which endangered the liberty of our own subjects, and therefore the Bill should have his strongest opposition. Lord WESTMORELAND considered the Bill as necessary on three grounds ; Ist, to preserve the tranyrillity of this country ; 2d, to preserve our amity with foreign Powers ; and 3d, to preserve the peace and tranquillity of the Continent.— With Teepeet to the arguments advanced against the measure, on the ground that it was unconsti- tntional, he should only reply, that the measure conferred no new power to the Crown , it only gave effect to a prerogative which the Crown al ready possessed, and had possessed flout the time of Magna Charta down_ to the present time. Ile denied that the Alien Act had been abused ; only four persons had been sent out of the country in ttre .trio . years that it existed. The Noble Lord opposite hAI conkplained of thik Bill, as one which tonal preinent foreigners conritg.rat his country, injure our character for hospitality, and prove a restraint upon our own liberty. Now he had no fears that the high character which we had obtained in Europe for hospitality would be lost by the adoption of this measure ; or that the .cause of liberty in this country would be for warded by making it an asylum for persons edu cated in the school of the French 'Revolution, or under the subsequent reign of Boonaparte. Now, with respect to the necessity of Government pos sessing this power, he should only advert to one circumstance which occurred in 1806, when indi viduals, the warmest ftiends of liberty, were at the - head of the Government of this country • an alien, who proposed a measure aimed at the life of the then Ruler of France, was sent out of the country, under the provisions of the Alien Bill ; and he would now ask whether it was too Much to ask, that the Government should now possess the Sallie power of protecting our own lives and cireets which it had formerly possessed, and ex ercised for the protection .st 4 Prince with whom we were in a state of bitter hostility ? The Ilfarquii of LANSDOWNE contended, that the measure was wholly unnecessary in a time of oroimoul peace like the present—it was; one highly unconstitutional. The Noble Lord who brought forward the measure had contended that the dangerous state of politics on the Continent rendered this measure necessary ; but he would ask, had such a measure been considered, neces sary in the time of the Jesuits ; at the-Reforma tion ; or after the rebellions in favour of the House of Stuart ?—times when this country was much less powerful than she was now, and her enemies much more formidable, both at home and abroad. The United States of America, front their situation, were more liable to be affected by the intrigues of the disaffected in politics, yet they had not found any such measure es this necessary; on the contrary, they had not been deterred from giving protection to , the persecuted, who had been obliged to fly horn Europe to the new world for an asylum. He was a warm admirer of the United States. It was a source of satisfaction to him to see them flourish ; but there was one ad vantage which he could not avoid envying them, and that was, that they alone shonld he the peo ple who had the power or the courage to afford an asylum to the persecuted and oppressed of other countries. With respect to the clause of which the Noble Viscount had given notice, he certainly should not, oppose it, if its operation was made prospective ; but be could not consent to its be ing made retrospective, and thus to be guilty of a breach of faith towards those persons who had vested their property in our Funds under the sanc tion of an Act of Parliament. Lord ilanllowtv supported the Bill, on the grounds that it was necessary for the preservation of tranquillity both at home and abroad. '['he Noble Lord denied that this Bill would have the effect of driving foreigners out of the country ; the contrary was the fact: r..csept some thousands more Aliens in the country than t h crc year ago. Their Lordships then divided on the question for going into the Committee— ( onteiil Not. Culitents Majority The House having resolved into the Committee on the Bill— viscount SIDMOUTET proposed, the adoption of the clause which he had described in his speech, as above stated---wl►ich was opposed principally by the Earl of Lauderdale and Lord Holland, and in the result agreed to by the Committee without a d:vision. After some fur hcr discussion, the LORD CIIAN CELLOR moved a proviso, in the nature of an amendment to the clause proposed by the Noble Viscount, and which in effect went Ao exempt those who bad become partners in the 'Bank of Scotland before the 28th day of April last, being that when notice Was given of the Bill. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE moved to amend this proviso, by altring it to the period of the passing of the Bill, instead of the 28th of April, as proposed by the Noble and Learned Lord. Some conversation then took place, in the course of which, the clause, as moved by the Noble and Learned Lord, was opposed by the Earls of Lau derdale and Rosslyn, and Lord Holland ; and sup ported by Lords Redeadale and Melville. At length a discussion took place on the ques tion ; and there appeared, For the Clause as originally proposer! 4O For the Marquis of Lansdowne's Amendment 2O . Majority —2o . Lord GAGE then proposed a_ clause, teriding to allow foreigners to choose the port-to which they should be sent, and to have a month's notice pre vious to their removal ; during which period they should remain in custody. The I-louse again divided— Contents .. 20 Nut Contents Majority against the Clause.... —22 On the motion of Lord SID MOUTH, a verbal al teration having been made in the title of the Bill, the [louse resumed. Viscount StnmouTu then moved, that the Standing Order of the House be taken into con sideration to-morrow, With the view of permitting the Report of the Committee to be received, and the Bill itself read a third time the same Agreed to, after some opposition from the Earl of LAUDERDALE and Lord HOLLAND. On the motion of the Marquis of LANSDOWNE, a return was ordered to be laid before the House of the. Persons %vim had put:chased Stock in the Bank of Scotland since the 28th of April last. EDUCATION OF THE POOR. The Report of the Education of the Poor Bill was received, several Amendments ►vere moved and agreed to, and the Loan CHANCELLOR took this opportunity of declaring, that he considered the Bill much improved since it had come into that Howe, and that he conceived his conduct not been treated with justice or propriety in ano ther place.—The third reading of the Bill was then fixed for this day.—Adjourned at One o'clock this morning. [For the Proceedings in the Hons. of Commons, see the Last Page.] NEXT THURSDAY, L. 1,000 PER MINUKE. 1,40,000, L. 23,000, OR I, 22,000, FOR, SIXTH-DRAWN PRIZE ABOVE • L. 1,000. THKEE`:. OF L.20;000-107 CAW TALS, IN THIS LOTTERY. THEATRICAL REGISTER. Performed Lust Night.! THEATRE ROYAL, DM/ RY-LANE.—King John : King John, Mr. Kean.; the Lady Constance, Miss Macauley. After which, The Sleeping Draught. THEATRE RoYA 1., COVENT-GARDEN.—Romeo and Juliet: Ro meo, Mr. C. Kemble ; Juliet, Miss O'Neill. After which, The 'Castle of Paluzzi. MAILS. ARRIVED-2 Dublin, 2 Waterford, 1 Guernsey and Jersey, 1 Holland, I France. DoE -1 Gottenburgb, I Lisbon. PRICE 0 THIS DAY AT T Bank Stock ... A per Cent. Red. 3 per Cent. Cons.. 791 78i 79 31 per Cent. BB-46 4 per Cents () GM; 5 per Cent. N. Ann.lo7l 1081 Bank L. Ann..... 20 3- i etbst F S'I'UCKS wELvE oycLucK. India Stock .2311 232! India 80nd5...... 859. 89s. pr. 1 Exch. Bills, 2d...195. 163. pr Ditto, 21d.. ...... 1115. 20s. pr. I Onntiunt ti pr. par. Cons. for Ju1y........... 79ii HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO•NIORROW. Morning, 3 minutes after 2. I Evening, 28 minutes after 2. THE SUN. SQLFM QUIS DICEItE FALSUM AUDEAT ? LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 1818. We received last night the Paris Papers of Friday last, and this morning those of Saturday. The latter state the appointment of the Sieur SIMEON, Prefect of the Var, to be Prefect of Doubs, in the room of the Count de ScEY ; and of the Skill' CUEVALIER, Sub-Prefect of Dreux, to be Prefect of the Department of Var, in the room of the Sieur SIMEON. The Duke of KENT arrived on the evening of the 24th ult. at Frankfort, and alighted at the hotel d'Angleterre, the residence of his Royal Highness's sister, the Queen Dowager of WUR.• TEMBERG. His Royal Highness was to set out the same night for Coburg, the residence of the Princess Dowager of LININGEN. The Grand Duke MICHAEL . was expected to arrive on Sunday last at the Russian head-quar ters at Maubeuge, from whence he proceeds to England. The Academy of Sciences, Arts and Belles Lettres of Dijon, on the 13th ult., elected his Royal Highness the Duke of SUSSEX, Sir JOSEPH BANKS, and Lord HOLLAND, Honorary Foleigtx Members. • Letters from Corfu are quoted in these Journals, stating that the CAPITAN PACUA had sailed from Constantinople, with a fleet of seven ships of the line, several frigates and corvettes. At the latter end of April this fleet was in the channel of Scio. Madame de KRUDENER had received orders at Riga to depart from that city, and to continue her journey. The Emperor and Empress of AUSTRIA quitted Zara on the 9th ult. to proceed to Scardona, from whence they were to set out- on the 10th for Se benico, and to continue their route on the 12th for Spalatro. It is asserted in these Journals, that offers to such an amount bad been made to the Minister of Finance by different Capitalists, with reference to the Loan, on the credit of the annual sum 14,600,000 francs of roues, that they would be sufficient to purchase an annual suns of 163,000,000 francs. The offers thus made are stated to amount altogether to 2,210,800,000 francs, or upwards of 90,000,0001. sterling FIVE PER CENTS. Thursday 6 9 f. 50 c. Friday 69 f. 15 c. DEFERI) STOCK. Thursday Friday EXCHANGE ON LONDON 82f. to c. 611. 135 c. One Nlonth.... Three Months. 23 f. 75 c. 23 1. 55 c. The continuation of the Letter from our Cor respondent at Paris, op the important subject of THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS, a subject in the highest degree interesting in every Country, we received this day, but must poStporis it till to rnorrow. The Regency Bill was last night read a second the in the House of Commons, and committed for this day. Mr. TIERNEY, following the ex ample of Earl GREY and Lord HoLLAND, recom mended a reduction of the Windsor Establish mein. OV what materials must the hearts_ of such met► be composed ! They behold one of the most amiable Monarchs, perhaps the most amiable, that ever sat upon the BRITISH THRONE, bowed down under the infliction of Lleal,en, and so far advanc ed in years that, in the ordinary course of nature, any expence attendant on his state cannot be of long duration, yet they propose to lessen what in general estimation contributes towards the digni ty of his elevated station, though the money which it requires is circulated among ourselves ! ! The common feelings of mankind must be against na t iler those who propose to act in this mann er, $ log can understand but little of human nature 109 such occasions to " assume a virtue if the/ it not." :t i t 0 5 1 We heartk you r with jekei orl Sr JAMES ari .all «410 oW th e 43.aroue4N tgretlink that lie does not inten offer- himself again for the re * *t.. City. No former possessor of that hig h honour ever conducted himself with 111°re tbt priety, and a more laudable attentioo clf.ll/ rights of his Constituents and the welfare % o f, State. He has slim'', upon several oe css oo t that lie was not servilely devoted to thi vern ig h but manifested a firm and independent sP irit ,g of lie had reason to object to the 'fleas" - d nisters. We sincerely hope that the recovetio presentation ofei; his health, and the solicitation of h is Ve At io o ' Citizens, will induce him to resume his since he can have no reason.: to °ail pei success, and we most heartily wish thatt,ll,sid Parliament may consist altogether, or al 01 a gre k at majority, of Members equally O il s the approbati o n of their Constituent s " esteem of the Public at,large. o We have often expres se d our convic"- i e 09° absolute necessity of an- ALIEN ACT, aa ti°4- 00 1° sider those as very shallow Politicia °s ' o s 44l ' blinded by the spirit of P ar ty, who obje ct .ce pt , a measure. Shall Great B r it a in W 41. ' 7 0 41 for all the refuse of th e Continent, tvbeljtetriol°'l that seditious and rebellious spirits exi 9t The new ALIEN BILL, which went throligh mittee in the House of Lords last pig ht ' re rti to be read a third time thi s d a y, i s a me 4 .51 14 001 dered peculiarly ne c ess ar y by the estr au- f iP g fact stated by Lord SIDMOUTII tact a ge that in an Act of the Scotch P ar liament , fi s titfi 1695, there was a clause, by which all f clf be l holding shares in the Batik of Scollat ia c otl ° naturalized Subjects of that Country, s " i quently, by the Act of Union, Of the pire. We trust that this provision will be Busil jb d i till it can be wholly aliolished. It ig istr if: to talk of the hospitality of this C o tt' A i such a character is to be obtained at tile ,o o of its safety. Besides, th e ne w Ali° 131 fig'? substance, nature, and effect, merelY ment of a necessary part of the pre l l o e the Crown. Lord H OLLAND qu oted the ing couplet from IVALtra , " Britain! thy land'by Heaven was sure oe s- - u d "To be the common refuge of mankind." lo t JUNIUS, upon a similar in c id en t in refrfien" HoaN E TOOL E , sa id "tbeGentlenian dei de— o f,s /# and naturally appeals to the evidence Puels." ite ri9T 111. 7 brr had a Meeting o f hi s friends Y e d i' at the Crown and An c h or T ave rn, bill vber e A v inform our Readers that it c ons isted °I, i d As' o f as PRESTON, GA LE J ONES , an d o ther al jo g 0 .01 rents, we may well be excuse d froth e f t g I V account of the proceedir sgs _ o f a despe r3 b ielr of Reformers and Politicians; of so but happily of so contemptible, a descrl The East India Company's ships Lotelli°ll4oo and Bridgewater a rr i ve d o ff Ly tu i n gton .1 45 they left China the Silt J anuar y, the Cap e March, and St. Helen a th e 3d April. ijek io l The Princess Charlotte of Wales. - frog' 1104 left Sr. Helena in company with the Castle and Bridgewater, a nd i s arrived. M; The Vansittart and Herefordshire, 11 , 1 1tlie" are also arrived ; they sail e d from t ts January, and St. Helen a the 29th ll stc'pa, ll o The Thomas Grepville, Carnatic, 11ttd d expected to leave, Sr.' Helena for FAO ° #4 the theT4hth or sth Apr. e General Kyd il arrived at Ca llol3 v.,1 December. , na nY„ 1 4 ; PORTSMOUTH, JUNE l.—The East India C°"' o l t Vansittart, Dalrymple, from China, is brougl at S P I " len's, being short of provisions, which has been 5 1,Aist, h tl the ship will sail again for the River withaut i y rt.i .. „`" siiiled from China on the sth January, in c omPa t i tA tiLl'li Hon. Company's ship - Herefords!, ire y ;ocl k i , t A At r i g . l Hon. Company's ships Atlas and General lena she left the Lowther Castle, Brid. T watery Thomas Grenville. The Van s itt ar t sailedb fi about nine weeks since, and s p o k e i n lat. 2 3 f„ e l° l ,4 " a South Seaman (noos e u n k nown ), bound ‘ to E been out three years. GENERAL ELECTION.—YeSIEHRY e ,. e , 0 00 ,1 Freemen in this Metropolis musteren the Grotto, Southampton -street, I - 1 01 "Yr 0,1 port of Mr. CoorEß, the new Candidatei.° or i cester.—The Friends and Fredric') a l ' s % 1 ; 1 CHARLES COCKEREL met at eight , e ery' y ' ''; night, at the Hole-in-the-Wall, l ui , ° ; - , e e r /e c.i° to adopt proper measures to secure for Evesham, in Gloucestershire. pg€o EXECUTION.—This morning Joseph 'lie genteel young man co , who was nv icted 9.. / rge' l Bailey Sessions in Ap r il l as t, for havi n g ' o 4o ° certain order for paym en t o f 1201. with 10•01‘erl to defraud Alessi's. Stephenson and (7°. a ir in Lombard-street; and George Chae-„,,( 0," Claxton, for having uttered as tr ue a forg - i Co v i , purporting to be that of the Governor antout;) pony of the Bank of England, were, 1 1 011 , t of t ; their sentence, at 8 o'clock, executed in Debtors' Door, Newgate, in presence o r spectators than have been obierved itch lancholy occasion for many years. 130t. :0 1 fortunate Oderc(ioirntaltriiy, e of Nd n conducted themselves with bY7 H U R eW S W D e NEXT T beg"' or than Twenty Capital Prizes -t be 'l ll 4 n ub o i j First Da y. In the last Lottery S`tv ir i i ie ayte attended tohi)ely.L o o t t t i ery the scn°. A/ sold Five Capitals, the very first daY , the highest Prize drawn, Pt) P4l fo r le r ; .111 so„ 'hap,